Christ van Willegen <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Janek Warchoł > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: >>> From experience, PayPal is very easy to use to send money to >>> someone in Europe. >>> The currency exchange is automatic, although I don't know what the >>> recipient fees are. >> >> According to their website it's between 0 and 4% +0,3$ depending on >> payment method and country. > > Ouch, that's quite steep! > > David, since you live in .de, you probably also have a bank account > there. If you list the IBAN (and other info) somewhere, in .eu bank > transfers are free of fees...
Only in the Euro zone, and they are not _free_ of fee but just can't exceed the fees for national transfers. A recent contributor from France discovered that his bank took €3 according to its conditions. But it would have done so as well within France. Now while I have my doubts that a bank with that sort of condition for a fundamental operation would be competitive (and so I consider it somewhat likely that there was some mistake involved), I think that would not be against EU regulations: you can charge all you want for a SEPA bank transfer as long as you are gouging your customers the same in-country. As a rule, contributors in the Euro zone have found transfer costs zero or small. This obviously excludes the UK, and fees for bank transfers from there are somewhere around the £10 figure or more, namely prohibitive. Fees might vary according to bank, but so far people have found that what Paypal skims off is the lesser evil. I will not list my bank data publicly but give it out on request. This is my private account and I need to be able to track the source of incoming money. The account also is not specific to LilyPond but to myself, so if I quit working on LilyPond on a donation basis, I need to be able to contact everyone who has contributed so far, and don't want to continue having this account be the target for LilyPond based contributions. A publicly listed account number would require a _dedicated_ account, one which one can close down when the purpose is no longer in place. Fees for such a non-personal account, namely a business account, are considerably higher. Basically it is the same story all over: if you do things "properly", everybody working the pipeline feels entitled to a more substantial share. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
